…the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works…
…Committee and the Labor-HHS Subcommittee for demonstrating a substantive commitment to public health and prevention with the proposed funding levels. Public health officials are addressing an unprecedented range of health…
…capacity within the public health and health care community. The federal Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant supports all 67 county health departments (CHD) and public health laboratories in developing…
…nearly an 18 percent cut to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – would be devastating to the public health and safety of Americans. This would constitute an…
…Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care, the Foundation works with…
…by the Prevention Fund are grants to states for infectious disease control, resources through the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and other core public health programs which, if…
…address health disparities through the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program. It also continues funding focused on environmental health, and for the CDC’s critical work addressing the…
…more resources to programs that promote harm reduction and access to treatment for individuals with substance use disorders including access to mental health services covered by insurance on par with…
…into the future. “As public health professionals we know that children living without their parents face immediate and long-term health consequences. Risks include the acute mental trauma of separation, the…
By Rahul Gupta, Health Officer and Executive Director, Kanawha-Charleston Health Department Just like the rest of the country, West Virginia and Kanawha County has been battling the obesity epidemic…
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